Core Scientific Inc (NASDAQ: CORZ) Stock Forecast for 2023 with -43.78% Downside

In the last trading session, 7.84 million Core Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:CORZ) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 7.17. With the company’s per share price at $13.91 changed hands at $0.31 or 2.28% during last session, the market valuation stood at $3.88B. CORZ’s last price was a discount, traded about -33.93% off its 52-week high of $18.63. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.61, which suggests the last value was 81.24% up since then. When we look at Core Scientific Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 8.32 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 10.72 million.

Analysts gave the Core Scientific Inc (CORZ) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.23. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended CORZ as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Core Scientific Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.03.

Core Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:CORZ) trade information

Instantly CORZ was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -8.00%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -1.00%, with the 5-day performance at -8.00% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Core Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:CORZ) is -12.30% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 44.67 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.78 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 16, meaning bulls need an upside of 13.06% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, CORZ’s forecast low is 14 with 20 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -43.78% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -0.65% for it to hit the projected low.

Core Scientific Inc (CORZ) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Core Scientific Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 26.34% over the past 6 months, a -2,729.41% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 8.10%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 1.64% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 10 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 97.79M. 6 analysts are of the opinion that Core Scientific Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 110.06M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 141.93M and 179.29M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -31.10%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -38.61%.

The 2025 estimates are for Core Scientific Inc earnings to decrease by -514.72%.

CORZ Dividends

Core Scientific Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February.

Core Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:CORZ)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 10.89% of Core Scientific Inc shares while 66.46% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 74.58%.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 6.99 shares estimated at $97.25 million under it, the former controlled 2.50% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 1.64% of the shares, roughly 4.59 shares worth around $63.87 million.